Note – 2024-08-30 13:38
Nothing better on a hot summer Spanish day than home made cold Gazpacho soup containing vegetables from the garden - cucumber, tomatoes, garlic, cayenne peppers & onion. The bread was home made too. S...
Tag: garden
Note – 2024-08-26 10:45
Today's pick from the garden. Think some hot and spicy sriracha sauce might be coming up
Note – 2024-08-16 10:16
@theappletree correct, water is so precious. Times of drought actually concentrate our minds and assist in improving the overall irrigation systems. This year we are consequently more efficient than e...
Note – 2024-08-16 08:20
Friday is watering day for us here in the campo. Great to see the olive and lemon trees being nourished in the morning sun. Our young avocados and apples need it every couple of days. Rewarding.
Note – 2024-06-17 07:51
Our trusty sun/solar oven at work early this morning. A dhal curry is gently going to cook for hours during the day. We bought this oven some 15+ years ago and its given excellent service. Anybody wit...
Note – 2024-05-24 09:14
It's Friday and it's also watering day. Making the most of it before the summer
Note – 2024-05-05 11:05
Planted 3 avocado trees on a sheltered spot on a terrace. At our altitude (750m) they might need some tender love and care especially next winter. Hoping they take and produce as we both love guacamol...
Note – 2024-03-23 15:49
Been a busy couple of days working on the land. My neighbour, Antonio, has been helping us install a piped irrigation system. Will save us much manual effort this spring and summer as well as being mu...
Note – 2024-03-16 12:00
The darling buds of Spring! Don't think I've ever seen our mandarin, orange and lemon trees with so many early season buds. The mulberry tree looking good too. Just been out sorting out our watering s...
Note – 2024-02-23 17:25
@jds We collect every winter and take to a local collective mill. Then we can exchange the weight of olives for a yield of olive oil. No money changes hands. Approx 1 ton of olives might yield 200 lit...
Note – 2024-02-23 15:08
A tiring but worthwhile day today watering our olive trees the old way by flooding the land via the ancient system of irrigation channels. Fulfilling!
Note – 2023-08-31 14:17
An amazingly fruity and mind blowing Sriracha salsa prepared by our best cheffie friend, Richard, from our own chillies, peppers and tomatoes. So good to have someone who really knows how to use our l...
Note – 2023-08-26 05:25
@jds thanks for that and for the whole idea of making gels. Got some ideas for making my own using local ingredients and produce from my garden. I also found this useful https://www.siroko.com/blog/c/...
Note – 2023-08-21 13:53
Today's pepper harvest from the greenhouse (converted swimming pool 😀 ). Going to freeze this lot into bags ready for the winter
Note – 2023-07-26 16:06
Looking forward to this tonight. A home grown tomato and basil salad with locally sourced garlic and drizzled with a friends olive oil. The simple things in life are the best
Note – 2023-07-01 19:38
Grade 1 calf muscle tear. Puts me out of next week's mountain trip unfortunately 😭. It happened a couple of days ago after a big day in the hills. I felt it go walking up some small steps leading to o...
Note – 2023-06-28 11:16
First harvest of green peppers. They smell and feel so fresh. Freezing some and maybe having fajitas tonight!
Note – 2023-06-18 18:31
Found this dragonfly in our greenhouse earlier today. I'm no expert but I think it's an adult female Green Darner, unless anybody can correct me.
Note – 2023-06-16 09:32
Today's greenhouse harvest. Guess it's a Lettuce, Cucumber and Basil salad 😂